“NMOP was really an amazing experience. As a performer, I learned tons of things about composing and music and general that would be hard to find elsewhere. The festival was expertly well-organized, and a strong community of participants was built.”
—instrumental participant
2024 Community Concerts
The Artphibian Experience at Branbury State Park 3-5pm (June 8 and June 15)
The Dinner/Music Adventure (June 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14)
Join us on our beautiful lakeside campus for a unique Dinner/Music Adventure. Chat with our friendly students and faculty, and learn about what moves people to make music and pursue it as a profession. A delicious dinner prepared by Chef Santi and Chef Kai will be followed by a concert of imaginative contemporary music. Seating is limited to four tickets per night.
2023 Community Concerts
Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet (June 10, 7:30pm: Barn Opera, Brandon)
Performer / Composer Showcase concerts (June 9, 13, and 15 at 7:30pm: Salisbury Congregational Church)
2022 Community Concerts
Saturday, June 11 (noon-6pm): Middlebury New Music Crawl
- Percussionist/composers Susie Ibarra and Levy Lorenzo
- Solo piano marathon
- Kids’ Activities
- Wandering Solos
- Community improv jam session
Friday, June 17 (8pm): Vocal Night at Barn Opera (Brandon)
Works of Amy Beth Kirsten, Kerrith Livengood, Trevor Weston, Gilda Lyons and Amy Williams, performed by festival participants, soprano Tony Arnold, guest vocalist Sharon Harms and the JACK Quartet.
2021 Concerts
September 11-12, 2021 (Brandon/Montpelier, VT)
a murmur in the trees for 24 double basses by Eve Beglarian | Robert Black | Matt Sargent
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June 8, 2021
Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels (1982)
Robert Black, double bass
Brian Riordan: Succubus (2020)
Anna Elder, soprano (NMOP ’17)
Kerrith Livengood: Soul Searching (2017)
Cyan Quartet
Kerrith Livengood: wherever you go, there’s a human (2021)
Kerrith Livengood, voice and tongue drum
Nicole Mitchell: Too Soon, Gone From Here (for Alive) (2021) WORLD PREMIERE
Devon Osamu Tipp, shakuhachi
Mark Micchelli, piano
Nicole Mitchell: Symbology # 1/#3 (2009)
Ramin Akhavijou (NMOP ’21) piano
Devon Osamu Tipp (NMOP ’21), keyboards
Jason Belcher (NMOP ’17), melodica
Mark Micchelli (NMOP ’18), accordion
Cullyn Murphy (NMOP ’18), toy piano
June 9, 2021
Amy Williams: Piano Portraits (2019-2020)
Felipe Lara: Injust Intonations (2016)
Nils Vigeland: Tango à deux (1984)
Nils Vigeland: Samantha Smith (1990)
Amy Williams, piano
June 10, 2021
Felipe Lara: Tran(slate) (2008)
Matthew Evan Taylor: Antsy (2020)
Matthew Evan Taylor: Dawn of a New Day (2018)
Du Yun: Tattooed in Snow (2015)
JACK Quartet: Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins, John Pickford Richards, viola, Jay Campbell, cello
June 12, 2021
Amy Williams: Give Way (2020)
Stop/Yield (2015)
Jay Campbell, cello
Amy Williams, piano
Otto Muller: Memor 2.26.12 (2017)
John Pickford Richards, viola
Nicole Mitchell: Decolonizing Beauty #5: Curiousity (2019)
JACK Quartet
Robert Black, double bass
Nils Vigeland: A Dream (2010, version for bass 2021) WORLD PREMIERE
Robert Black, double bass
György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments – Book IV (1985-87)
Tony Arnold, soprano
Christopher Otto, violin
June 13, 2021
Eve Beglarian: Farther from the Heart (2016)
Eve Beglarian, voice
Amy Williams, piano
Eve Beglarian: Enough (1993)
Tony Arnold, soprano
Robert Black, double bass
Amy Williams, piano
Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet No. 13 (2020)
WORLD PREMIERE
JACK Quartet with Tony Arnold (soprano)
June 13, 2021 (Discover Jazz Festival, Burlington)
Works of Matthew Evan Taylor and the world premiere of Wadada Leo Smith’s 13th String Quartet (Tony Arnold and the JACK Quartet)
2021-2022 Alumni Concert Series:
NMOP is thrilled to be funding the following concerts by our amazing alumni:
- Music In Bloom (Bloomington, IN) including works by Baldwin Giang (’14), Bryan Wysocki (’17, ’20), and Nina Shekhar (‘17), performed by Clare Longendyke (piano, ’13-16), Amy Petrongelli (voice, ’14, ’15, ’17) [August 13-14, 2021]
- Centro de Arte Sonoro (Buenos Aires, Argentina) will host a concert that fuses sound art and improvisation with world premiere commissions by Carlos Quebrada (’20), Ana María González Gamboa and Gabriela Areal [December 2021]
- All-NMOP concert at Denison University (Granville, OH) with LIGAMENT, Gabi Vanek (bassoon, ’19), Daniel Schreiner (piano, ’19) and works by Lilac Atassi (’19), Ramin Roshandel (’19), Christine Burke (’13), Zachery Meier (’19), Erin Rogers (faculty ’19) and others [February 2022]
- Quartet 121 (New York, NY) with works by NMOP faculty George Lewis and Du Yun, ZongYun We (’16), James Diaz and Jessie Cox [March 2022)
- Front Porch and guests (Ypsilanti, MI) with works by Evan Premo (’18), Dayton Hare (’18), Ari Sussman (’19), Nina Shekhar (’17) and others [March 2022]
- Room 1078 (Ann Arbor, MI) in a concert focused on musical storytelling with commissioned and semi-improvised string quartet works [June 2022]